Basking In The Trivial

The newly minted New Yorker staff writer’s June 12 blog post ‘Why Smart People Are Stupid’ copied, at times word for word, three paragraphs from Lehrer’s 2011 Wall Street Journal story ‘The Science of Irrationality.’ The New Yorker has now appended editors’ notes to all five posts on Lehrer’s new blog Frontal Cortex. Those notes […]